EP0201311A2 - Extraktionsanlage und Extractionsprozess - Google Patents
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- B01D11/00—Solvent extraction
- B01D11/02—Solvent extraction of solids
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- B01D11/023—Moving bed of solid material using moving bands, trays fixed on moving transport chains
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- the present invention is related to the field of equipments for extracting a liquid from a solid carrier medium in which the liquid is entrained.
- Such equipments utilize a solvent for treating the liquid entraining solid carrier medium in order to extract the liquid.
- Methods utilizing these equipments perform extraction basically in one of two ways: percolation and immersion.
- a preferred embodiment of the present invention operates utilizing both of these methods.
- Tar sand deposits are located at numerous locations around the world, and a number of deposits are located on the North American continent. These locations are primarily in the states of California, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah of the United States and at various locations in Canada.
- the particular products being worked in extraction processes can vary quite significantly.
- the solid carrier is fairly homogenously granular.
- the viscosity of the liquid by-product to be recovered the consistency of the product being worked tends to be clumpy, the size of agglomerations varying significantly.
- the distribution of the petroleum product throughout the tar sand mass is not uniform, and what might prove to be sufficient processing for a portion of the mass might prove inadequate for other portions.
- Percolation a method wherein the solvent flows -through the extractable material, might function well to remove oils from meal because of the relatively uniform granularity of the meal.
- tar sands With tar sands, however, percolation is difficult because of the compactness of the raw product to be processed. Nevertheless, percolation, if it can be performed, is a method of extraction which provides advantages in extracting the liquid by-product from its solid carrier.
- the present invention is directed. It is an improved extractor which functions well to process heavy sedimentary, liquid-entraining solids to remove and recover the liquid by-products entrained in those solids. Although particularly useful for processing tar sand deposit materials to recover petroleum products embedded in such sands, it will be understood that the invention is designed to function equally as well in processing other heavy sedimentary solids.
- the present invention is an extractor for separating liquids embedded in heavy sedimentary solids from the solid carrier medium. It includes a plurality of pools arranged relative to one another so that a liquid solvent introduced into the uppermost of the pools will cascade successively into subsequently lower pools. Means are provided for introducing a solvent agent into an uppermost of the pools. The solvent overflows through an outlet end of the uppermost pool and into an inlet end of the next lower pool. The solvent, in turn, overflows through an outlet end of that pool into the inlet end of the next successive pool.
- Means are provided for depositing raw, liquid-entraining, solid carrier medium into the lowermost of the pools and for conveying the solid medium upwardly along a floor of each pool which slopes downwardly from the inlet end of the pool to the outlet end. The solid medium is, thereby, conveyed upwardly into the next subsequently higher pool.
- Each pool can be constructedI-with an inlet at the inlet end being spaced vertically above an overflow at the outlet end.
- the floor of the pool can have its upper end at the inlet to the pool and its lower end spaced vertically downwardly from the overflow.
- a solvent introduced into the uppermost pool will rise to a level at the overflow of that pool.
- sedimentary solids entraining the liquid to be extracted are being conveyed counter-current into the upper pool from the immediately lower pool.
- percolation will occur with respect to the solids entering the uppermost pool.
- those solids are deposited onto the lower end of the floor of the uppermost pool, they will be submerged beneath the solvent in the pool, and immersion extraction will occur.
- a preferred embodiment of the invention includes a bath, constructed similarly to each of the pools, and disposed above the uppermost pool. As in the case of transmission of the sedimentary solids upwardly through the pools, the solids can be deposited from the uppermost pool into the bath.
- the bath can be provided with a transmission means for passing the solids beneath sprinkler introduction of the solvent into the bath to effect a final percolation extraction stage upon the solids before they are recovered.
- figure 1 illustrates an end view of an extractor 10 in accordance with the present invention.
- the view illustrates an end at which solids, from which an extractable liquid entrained therein have been removed, are recovered from the extraction process.
- a preferred embodiment of the invention envisions an extractor 10 relatively narrow as compared to the height dimension.
- the width of the extractor 10 is even smaller relative to its length.
- the extractor 10 is divided, along its longitudinal axis, into a plurality of pools 12, 12' and, in a preferred embodiment, a final stage bath 14.
- a chute 16 extends downwardly from a leftmost end of the final bath 14, and solid materials having gone through the extraction process are deposited into the chute 16 for recovery.
- FIG. 2 illustrates a cover 18 superimposed over the extractor 10, although it will be understood that, if desired, the extractor 10 could be open on its top.
- an aperture 20 is provided therein to afford entry into the extractor 10 to sedimentary solids having an extractable liquid entrained therein.
- One of a number of types of equipments known in the art can be utilized for conducting the sedimentary solids to the aperture 20 and dumping them therethrough. Such equipments might typically include augers or other components to effect movement of the solids.
- the pool 12 has an inclined floor 22 which angles upwardly and to the left as seen in figure 2.
- the uppermost end of the floor 22 is at a height the same as is the inlet 24 end (that is, the leftmost end) of the pool 12.
- the floor 22 of the pool 12 thereafter, slopes downwardly until it intersects a wall 26 of the extractor 10 at the end at which the sedimentary solids are introduced.
- a discharge aperture 28 is provided in that wall 26 at a height lower than the inlet end 24 of the pool.
- a pair of sprockets 30 are mounted on axles 32 which are journaled between the side walls 34, 36 of the extractor 10, one of each of said sprockets 30 proximate each end of the pool 12.
- An endless chain 38 extends around the sprockets 30 and is driven by the sprockets 30 in a clockwise direction as viewed in the figure.
- a plurality of staves 40 extend generally transversely to a plane defined by the run of the chain 38, a portion of each stave 40 extending laterally from the chain 38 in opposite directions, when the chain 38 is positioned centrally between the walls 34, 36 of the extractor 10, substantially to its respective side wall 34, 36.
- the stave portions can be welded to chain lengths 38 as at 42 as seen in figure 3. With the staves 40 so secured to the chain length 38, they will not impede passage of the chain 38 over the drive sprockets 30.
- a single chain 38 having stave portions extending on both sides thereof is not an exclusive manner of conducting sedimentary solids along the floor 22 of a pool 12.
- Dual chains, one running substantially along each side wall 34, 36 of the extractor 10 can also function to effect the intended purpose of the chain/stave conveyor assembly. When such dual chains would be used, each stave would comprise a single portion extending across between the chains.
- a single chain and accompanying pair of drive sprockets is believed to be optimum in order to minimize the number of moving parts which might become clogged by the solids being processed.
- a baffle 46 can be provided extending downwardly from the aperture 20 and angled away from the extractor wall 26.
- the second lowermost pool 12' has an overflow 48' substantially coinciding with the inlet 44 to the lowermost pool 12. Solids moved through the lowermost pool 12, therefore, will be deposited into this second pool 12'.
- the construction of this pool 12' is substantially identical to that of the lowermost pool 12.
- the specific construction of baffles provided in order to direct solids away from the lower of conveyor drive sprockets 30', however, is different because of the smaller vertical distance through which the solids will tumble down to the floor 22' of the- pool 12'.
- the angle of the baffle 50 relative to the vertical is greater in this second pool 12'.
- the angle of the floor 22' of the pool 12', the floor's length, and the construction of the chain conveyor with its staves 40' can be, however, the same as in the lowermost pool 12.
- the direction of rotation of the conveyor is clockwise as viewed in figure 2 and, consequently, sedimentary solids deposited on the floor 22' of the pool 12' will be moved upwardly therealong by the conveyor.
- a liquid solvent is introduced into the uppermost pool 12' to flow in a direction counter-current to the direction of movement of the sedimentary solids through the extractor 10.
- the solvent can be introduced through a sprinkler arrangement 52 into a final bath 14 through which the solids can pass.
- the solvent will be introduced into the uppermost pool 12' by passing over an overflow 54 at the output end of the bath 14 and into the uppermost pool 12'.
- As solvent is so introduced into the uppermost pool 12' it will wash through solids passing upwardly along the floor 22' of that pool 12' and proximate the inlet end 44' thereof. At such a location, percolation extraction will be effected.
- a final bath 14 through which the solids will pass can be provided at a level above that of the uppermost pool 12'.
- a floor 56 over which the solids are transmitted can be provided at a location elevated above the floor 58 of the bath 14.
- a conveyor 57 similar in construction to those utilized in the various pools 12, 12' can be provided in the bath 14. The rotation of the conveyor 57, however, would be counter-clockwise as viewed in figure 2, the upper run of the conveyor 57 moving across the elevated floor 56.
- the elevated floor 56 can be porous so that solvent sprinkled over solids passing up the elevated floor 57 will pass through the elevated floor 57 and fill the bath 14 to a level of its overflow 54.
- the solvent will, thereafter, cascade into the uppermost pool 12' and, sequentially, into the other pools 12.
- the final bath 14 stage of extraction is one of percolation since the solvent washes through the sedimentary solids passing up the elevated floor 57 of the bath 14.
- the extractor 10 can incorporate a tank 60 for receiving miscella (that is, a solution of the solvent and extracted liquid) once it passes out of the terminal wall 26 of the lowermost pool 12. Similarly, the miscella can, thereafter, be worked to recover the liquid extract therefrom. Appropriate equipment 62 can be used in combination with the extractor 10 to effect this separation.
- miscella that is, a solution of the solvent and extracted liquid
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US06/730,960 US4751060A (en) | 1985-05-06 | 1985-05-06 | Extractor |
US730960 | 2003-12-09 |
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EP0201311A2 true EP0201311A2 (de) | 1986-11-12 |
EP0201311A3 EP0201311A3 (en) | 1987-06-03 |
EP0201311B1 EP0201311B1 (de) | 1991-08-07 |
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US (1) | US4751060A (de) |
EP (1) | EP0201311B1 (de) |
CA (1) | CA1253672A (de) |
DE (1) | DE3680704D1 (de) |
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US2359929A (en) * | 1941-12-23 | 1944-10-10 | Stauffer Chemical Co | Process and apparatus for the treatment of fruit pomace |
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EP0804953A1 (de) * | 1996-05-02 | 1997-11-05 | Crown Iron Works Company | Selbstreinigende Extraktionsvorrichtung |
WO2016044237A1 (en) | 2014-09-18 | 2016-03-24 | Bridgestone Corporation | Extractor and related methods |
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CA1253672A (en) | 1989-05-09 |
EP0201311B1 (de) | 1991-08-07 |
DE3680704D1 (de) | 1991-09-12 |
EP0201311A3 (en) | 1987-06-03 |
US4751060A (en) | 1988-06-14 |
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